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XP hard drive as slave to Vista

Anyone know if I should expect any issues in connecting a hard drive with Windows XP on it as a slave to a computer with Vista? I'm not planning on dual-booting or anything, just looking for a cheap and effective way to transport data files (Office stuff, mostly) from the XP hard drive to the new Vista hard drive. I'd use one of those Easy Transfer cables, but the XP box doesn't run anymore...

Well the first issue would be the boot order of hdd's. Other than that, you may need to monkey with permissions to copy the files in vista, which would have to be put back to their original state.
Those are the only "issues" I have run across with the multiple data transfers that I have done in such a way.

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The permissions on the XP drive should not be an issue. If you do run into problems then simply take ownership of the files.

If you use EFS, make sure you decrypt your files before you attempt to transfer the files.

Last edited by phishphreek; November 25th, 2007 at 03:02 AM.

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I should have been a little more clear, when I said permissions. I just meant that you may have to take ownership to back them up. If your just doing a backup, make sure to restore the ownership or your customer may not have access to their desktop or files. They get really mad when that happens, learned that the hard way.

<chsh> I've read more interesting technical discussion on the wall of a public bathroom than I have at AO at times

Turns out it's this beautiful Precision 490 (Man, I'd put that box in the middle of my living room!) with freaking Dual Xeon processors and 8Gigs of RAM. Customer didn't even opt for Vista, just XP! All I did was take out the old HD, and hook it up to the new puter... turns out the new one boots from the old hard drive (That wasn't cool - I boot up that freakingly-lookingly-new computer, and what does the customer see: the same thing they wanted to get rid off!)... I turned the Dell cables around, and it boots from the new one (I remember the days when you had to mess with jumpers and/or BIOS settings)!